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Death Rate In Type 2 Diabetes Reduced

The largest-ever study of treatments for type 2 diabetes has shown that a combination of two blood pressure lowering drugs reduced the risk of death, as well as the risks of heart and kidney disease. The ADVANCE (Action in Diabetes and Vascular Disease) Study was led by researchers at The George Institute for International Health in Sydney and the results have been presented at the European Congress of Cardiology in Vienna.

Hemoglobin A1c Can Predict Type 2 Diabetes

Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) is a marker of cumulative exposure to glucose (sugar) over the preceding 2- to 3-month period, Dr. Aruna D. Pradhan, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, and colleagues explain in the American Journal of Medicine.Pradhan and colleagues examined whether baseline HbA1c levels can predict diabetes and a first heart-related event in 26,563 participants of the Women’s Health Study who at the outset were at least 45 years of age and did not have diabetes or cardiovascular disease.

A total of 1,238 cases of diabetes and 684 cardiovascular events occurred during follow-up, which lasted a median of 10 years.

They observed a graded increase in risk for both diabetes and heart-related events, such as heart attack, with increasing levels of HbA1c.

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